BP: The Ongoing Issue of Safety "The British multinational oil company BP (formerly known as British Petroleum) is not new to controversy. It has a reputation for taking risks and has suffered a number of safety breaches. In the 1960s, it had the worst safety record in the oil industry and was responsible for the massive Torrey Canyon oil spill off the British coast. In 1995, John Browne became CEO and moved the company in the direction of aggressive expansion. Browne also tried to improve the company's safety record; however, after the company's acquisitions of Amoco and Arco, it was strapped for cash. As a result, neither Browne nor his successor, Tony Hayward, had sufficient funds to upgrade worn-out facilities to the extent needed, and the company has been experiencing safety incidents as listed below: In 2005, 15 workers died and more than 170 workers sustained injuries in a Texas City Refinery explosion. In 2006, the Thunder Horse production platform in the Gulf of Mexico almost sank in a hurricane when workers installed a valve backward. Pipeline corrosion in the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska's North Slope in the same year caused a major oil spill. The company's Ohio and Texas refineries accounted for 97% of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration 2007-2010 "egregious" and "willful" violations. It is evident that an underlying structure or set of structures have been responsible for BP's failures in the area of safety. As discussed in Module 5, structure shapes a system's behavior of behavioral patterns; therefore, to change a specific behavior, management needs to change the underlying structure from which the behavior emerges. Accordingly, conduct research to collect information about BP in relevant areas. Next, identify and utilize one or more proper Systems Archetype(s) as a diagnostic tool to gain insight into and analyze the underlying structures that have been contributing to BP's safety issues. (1) Present your analysis of the behavior of BP's system and (2) make proper recommendations to help BP reduce its safety problems. Please offer and justify short-term and long-term solutions. You can use Systems Thinking to inform your justification A key resource for this assignment is William Braun's article, "The System Archetypes," which is available inside Module 5. This article provides sample cases, analyses, and recommendations that help to utilize Systems Archetypes more effectively. The case analysis will be 4-6 pages (excluding cover page and reference page); APA writing conventions should be followed with a minimum of six (6) sources referenced and cited